Just speculation, but think of it as a tactic to prevent the enemy from using propaganda against you. There are no historical pictures or video out there to create false scenes and situations. One of the deep states most valuable weapons and a can of spray paint castrated that beast right out of the gate.
That's my thought and also as to why they left the power and Internet on so that we can watch. If I don't see a Z as far as I'm concerned it's not current footage.
And they've obviously been too lazy to do so with all the old footage we've seen reused. The normies are too stupid but it might be there for those actually willing to pay attention.
Is very quick way for Russians to ID friendly forces in a short engagement war. Orders likely went out the hour before go-time indicating what exact symbol to paint. Thus the enemy wouldn't know, or have time to mark their vehicles.
Its very important because RF forces and Ukraine forces use the same equipment, or same families of equipment even if RF's is better and upgraded.
Its a low tech IFF technique to help cut down on friendly fire.
It also might well prevent the Western Media from using old footage, but as we have seen they are doing that anyways, and its not going to be a big concern for the Russian Army what the West thinks of them.
Why are there Z's painted on everything?
Just speculation, but think of it as a tactic to prevent the enemy from using propaganda against you. There are no historical pictures or video out there to create false scenes and situations. One of the deep states most valuable weapons and a can of spray paint castrated that beast right out of the gate.
That's my thought and also as to why they left the power and Internet on so that we can watch. If I don't see a Z as far as I'm concerned it's not current footage.
With today's tech, they could manipulate the footage and add a "Z" in after the fact, I would imagine.
Yes they could and still can, but they were taken off guard and that makes all the difference.
Good point. They probably had all of the video lined up ahead of time.
And they've obviously been too lazy to do so with all the old footage we've seen reused. The normies are too stupid but it might be there for those actually willing to pay attention.
I would think that sort of manipulation would be easy to pick up with image analysis.
Sure, but a vast majority of people would simply take it at face value.
No one cared when they did it on 9/11.
They have
Is very quick way for Russians to ID friendly forces in a short engagement war. Orders likely went out the hour before go-time indicating what exact symbol to paint. Thus the enemy wouldn't know, or have time to mark their vehicles.
Its very important because RF forces and Ukraine forces use the same equipment, or same families of equipment even if RF's is better and upgraded.
Its a low tech IFF technique to help cut down on friendly fire.
It also might well prevent the Western Media from using old footage, but as we have seen they are doing that anyways, and its not going to be a big concern for the Russian Army what the West thinks of them.
The Z stands for Victory. I seen an article where Russia sports stars are wearing Z too.
But победа means victory...
The Z is on their keyboards where the Q would be, too, I'm told. Can anyone confirm?
There is no z in the russian alphabet, their letters a phonetic and the "Zha" sound is a deferent character.
GOD is the A and the Z. The beginning and the end.
That is proof this dude is Russian. The zed painted on their vehicles appears to be to prevent friendly fire.